You can use it and the new portrait mode lighting effects by opening the camera app and selecting portrait from the shooting modes with the front-facing camera active.

Adjusting after you take a photo is just as quick: View the photo in the photos app, select Edit and then select Depth.

Want to wake your iPhone to check notifications without picking it up? A few seconds later the slider to power off will show up.

If your iPhone is giving you trouble, you can force restart it using a series of button presses. Hold it in until the screen goes black, followed shortly after by the Apple logo showing up on the screen.

Open Control Center and long-press or force touch the Do Not Disturb icon to pick from the new options. Indeed, this same feature can be used to register a second face to Face ID to give a second person access to your device.

With iOS 12, open the Settings app, select Battery and you will have as much info as you can digest. New charts, breakdowns and graphs show you exactly what was using your battery and, perhaps most importantly, when it was used.

Prev Next Prev Next. December 29, Caption: Go home Starting at the bottom of the display, swipe up to close an app. Quick-scroll to top of page Want to get back to the top of a website, app or text document?

Notification center Access the notification center with a swipe down from the top of the screen. Or swipe to the left Old habits are hard to break.

Enter multitasking view Instead of swiping up to go back to the home screen, stop about halfway to view all open apps. Quicker Multitask access Instead of swiping up to the middle of the screen and waiting for multitasking to start, swipe up from either bottom corner of the display in an arc toward the opposite edge of the screen.

Fast app switching Swipe to the left or right on the bottom of the display, going over the top of the hint bar to quickly move between apps.

Reachability still exists It still exists but is a little tricky to trigger. Hidden notification details The iPhone XS and iPhone XR both hide notification details on the lock screen until Face ID identifies your face, after which the content of each notification fills in.

Then open Control Center and activate Screen Recording. Then just do your thing. Screen Recording will capture both the Animoji animations on the screen and your voice.

Once the screen recording is done, go to Photos app and edit the video. Crop so that only the Animoji video is visible in the video.

Open the Camera app, switch to the front facing camera and tap on Portrait. Now follow the instructions on the screen to frame your face just right.

Hit the shutter button and you have a depth effect selfie. Portrait Lighting is a new feature independent of the Portrait mode. Using this, you can add professional-level lighting effects to your portraits.

Swipe between the available effects. You can change or disable an effect later from the Photos app. This makes the iPhone one of the few consumer electronics in the world with the capacity.

You can also shoot super slow motion, at fps at p. And of course, you can end the clip later to move around the slow motion parts. As a rule of thumb, you should try to avoid taking pictures with the flash turned on.

This new slow sync flash is usually found on pro camera gear. You can find multiple wallpapers like this. Or you can use an app like Notch Remover to make your own.

One of the things I enjoy the most on iPhone X are the 2x zoom photos where the iPhone switches to the telephoto lens. In iPhone X, even the telephoto lens is stabilized.

What this means is that you get amazing 2x photos with the same level of detail and quality and no blur , without even having to move closer to the subject.

Especially when it comes to videos, you should switch to recording them in HEVC. So according to me, the best wallpaper for the Home screen is a pitch black one you should go crazy with the wallpaper on the Lock screen.

Thankfully, Apple has included a black wallpaper with the iPhone X this time. I hope that comes with iOS But till then we can use the Smart Invert accessibility setting to kind of get a similar mode.

And on OLED screen, this looks really cool. You can turn this feature on from: This happens a lot — you end up on the Home screen intentionally or unintentionally and you need to go back to the most recent app you were using.

You can either tap on it from the Home screen to invoke the App Switcher. Sign up for our iPhoneHacks Daily newsletter to get the top Apple news stories delivered to your inbox.

Designed by Blog Consulting. Hold the phone between inches from your face centimeters. Just swipe up to unlock the phone. Face ID will catch up.

Faster App Switcher Access If you find the process of waiting for the App Switcher too tedious, try swiping up at a degree angle to the right.